When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.
It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way.
I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.
We are losing our country and the freedoms we have enjoyed. As Bible-believing Christians, we are the ones who must take action before it's too late.
I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.
You have to have faith in yourself, keep believing and sticking to the game plan, and hope when the chance does come, one of you will put it away.
I think there are real possibilities of reaching out to many of the Trump voters, those who voted for Obama believing his rhetoric.
It's just about confidence and believing in your own ability. If you hit it over the wall, you've got every chance of it going in.
Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.
My journey is about believing that people will actually stick around. It's a hard thing to believe when you don't have a prototype for it. I've had to develop that for myself.
Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.
Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.
Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
We've got to get people across this country believing they can be a part of a technology future, that that's going to work for their families in an empowering way.
The primitive Christians perpetually trod on mystic ground, and their minds were exercised by the habits of believing the most extraordinary events
I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.
I have altogether failed to comprehend as to how undue pride or vain-gloriousness could ever stand in the way of a man believing in God.
It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge him.
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.
Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.
If I could turn back time, I would tell myself that I'm beautiful every day, because we all are! And we need to start believing it!
Believing in the Tooth Fairy is easier than trying to figure out how else the money gets under your pillow.
Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming.
How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?
I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.
He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.
You're falling into the trap of believing everything that's in the political handbook, and at the top of the list it says you can't do anything without money. [Donald] Trump has.
O thou, whose days are yet all spring,
Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving;
Experience is a dumb, dead thing;
The victory's in believing.
Of course the Devil is laughing at folks for believing it [Big Bang, etc.]. But hey, it works, it sends 'em to Hell, so he'll use it.
Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.
During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.
Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.
Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.
Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.
The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.
True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.
That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
I never, ever grew up as a young woman believing that my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.
It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!
When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation.
Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
Against Rafa or Roger or Novak, it's about getting over that intimidation, believing you deserve a chance to take them out.
I always say believe for a bunch, and even if you only get half of it you are better off than believing for a little and getting all of it.
People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much.
We have been brainwashed by school, indoctrinated by industrial propaganda, and mesmerized by the popular media into believing that compliance is not only safe but right and necessary.
It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.
It's like being a little kid again, parading around in a nightgown tucked into your underpants, believing it looks terrific.
If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.
I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.
Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.
I want everybody to know that I don't care who you are, where you're from, if you're popular or not: we all have haters. But you have to be resilient. You have to not allow them to have the power over you, where you start believing the things they say.
First I stopped believing in hell, then the afterlife. Sometimes that connection is still there, and I'll feel an impulse to pray if I'm stressed or upset.
Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.
Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.
Some people are just stuck in their ways and have been brainwashed into believing that credit cards and debt are an unavoidable part of life.
We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.
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